There are no special settings that I know of. When I captured the xml I posted in my previous message I had manually started playing a movie from the Dune interface just like you did. That's why the strange playback url format. Did you have a display connected to the Dune? Notice the OSD values are -1 implying there is no display device connected.

Yes - I have the Dune hooked up to my Onkyo via HDMI - been watching movies off it for the last day and love it. I did update the firmware to the latest, don't know if that broke it. The only variable that is changing when I watch a movie is _position...

I updated my Dune to the latest firmware yesterday before I made the test. I do not know why it would not give you accurate status. I think we need a 3rd Dune user to chime in. I have the Smart B1 player.

OK - I am issuing commands now with no problems to the Dune from ML - the only thing that doesn't appear to work is the Status. I changed my Dune to output 1080p/60 - I am using smb to access movies. Besides that and updating the firmware, it is as is. Just using HDMI cable... Thanks.

Also make sure that the Port is set to 80 when setting up the Dune AV device in the Family Manager.

If you want to test just issue the AV|9~PlayMovie~<<file>> as a quick command from ML Server (but substitute <<file>> with the full path to the movie)

Note there is a confirmed bug with the ML variables being updated when playing raw formats (IFO and I also believe ISO) - Dune knows about it and Dave was going to update the plugin to have a work around - the bug is that the variable in ML will indicate stopped even though it is playing. It is a bug with Dune not ML. Dune said they would fix it sometime. It plays fine, it is just the variables...

By all means go with the Dune for those 5 remote movie players. You'll soon be able to use those movie zones for remote music zones too. Those low end PCs just don't have the horsepower they need for Blu-ray.

Just about every device I have, BluRay, Sharp Television all play netflix. It would be nice to control it from ML someday.Meaning I like the ML solution of being able to browse from the tablet then play on the screen.

The problem with Netflix on the hardware devices is that each device has its own self-contained Netflix app. It would be really nice if Netflix just exposed the movie as a streaming URL and let you play it anywhere but because of the DRM embedded in the stream they only play in the approved players. That's why we need to play in their web based SilverLight player.